NICE(1) User Commands NICE(1)NAMEnice - run a program with modified scheduling priority
SYNOPSISnice [OPTION] [COMMAND [ARG]...]
DESCRIPTION
Run COMMAND with an adjusted niceness, which affects process schedul‐
ing. With no COMMAND, print the current niceness. Niceness values
range from -20 (most favorable to the process) to 19 (least favorable
to the process).
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options
too.
-n, --adjustment=N
add integer N to the niceness (default 10)
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of nice, which usually super‐
sedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's docu‐
mentation for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report nice bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report nice translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
Packaged by Gentoo (8.21 (p1.0))
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSOnice(2), renice(1)
The full documentation for nice is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the info and nice programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info coreutils 'nice invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 8.21 February 2013 NICE(1)